Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 71, famed pediatrician who overcame male professional prejudice to head the first U.S. child-hygiene bureau in New York City (later copied in nearly every State), brought down the infant death rate from 144 per 1,000 births in 1907 to 66 per 1,000 in 1923; from a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In recent years she shared a farm near Princeton, N.J. with two other noted spinsters: Authoress I. A. R. Wylie, 59, and Dr. Louise Pearce, 59, top-ranking woman doctor with the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research...
...Love (by Edward Caulfield; produced by Arthur Beckhard & Victor Hugo-Vidal) concerns a lady scientist and a well-known actor (Lotus Robb and Walter Hampden) who meet through a marriage bureau, hide their identities, spend a trial fortnight in Connecticut...
...Knox's office on the second "deck" of the barracks-like Navy Department on Washington's Constitution Avenue. There were gathered the Secretary, Under Secretary Forrestal, Assistant Secretary Bard, Admiral Harold R. ("Betty") Stark, Chief of Naval Operations. Nimitz, then a rear admiral and chief of the Bureau of Navigation, was the calmest man present...
...particular, Nimitz had to appraise balding Captain Charles H. ("Sock") McMorris, Kimmel's war plans officer, who had said (a week before Dec. 7) that Japanese airmen would never surprise Pearl Harbor. In BuNav, Nimitz had seemed a hard executive, despite his amiable manner. He had found the Bureau slack, and had made it taut. The officers whose careers had seemed blasted by Jap bombs and torpedoes expected Nimitz to sweep them all out to some naval Siberia and to bring in his own team. They trudged to the new CinCPac's conference...
Commodities. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of commodity prices crept up another fraction of a point, reached 104.9% of the 1926 average-a new wartime highwater mark. As usual, higher prices for foodstuffs contributed most to the rise...